07-05-94 Congress Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tuesday, 07/05/1994 Congress Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Set 1: Rift, Sample in a Jar, The Curtain > Letter to Jimmy Page, If I Could, Uncle Pen, Stash, Esther, Down with Disease, Sweet Adeline[1]

Set 2: Punch You In the Eye > Sparkle > Bathtub Gin -> Lifeboy, Cities, You Enjoy Myself > The Great Gig in the Sky > Hold Your Head Up, Ginseng Sullivan[2], My Sweet One[3], Amazing Grace[1], Golgi Apparatus

Encore: Good Times Bad Times

[1] Without microphones.
[2] Acoustic; without microphones.
[3] Acoustic; without microphones. Sing-along with audience during second verse.

Notes: Two breakouts dotted the setlist: the first Letter to Jimmy Page (separate from Alumni Blues) since June 19, 1988 (745 shows) and the first Cities since September 13, 1988 (710 shows). Trey quoted the theme from Shaft at the start of the second set; there was also a Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies tease. Sweet Adeline and Ginseng Sullivan through Amazing Grace were performed without microphones. Ginseng Sullivan and My Sweet One were performed acoustic. The latter evolved into a sing-along with the audience during the second verse.

This first set is heat. Curtain->LTJP>IF I could is a stellar segment that has vintage tight 94 sound. This one has long been a favorite of mine. While you def lose something on the mic-less acoustic songs on the sources I’ve come across from this tour, its still well worth a grab if you don’t yet have it. The Gin is a solid one and The Cities>YEM>Great Gig is the reason to listen to this second set.

July 94 was def a good time to be a Phish fan

Wow…I’ve never heard this one. a 1994 Cities?!

Bring that heat back to Canada Phish!!

You ever hear the 84 Cities?